Abstract: The invention relates to a method of massive MIMO communication, comprising: —forming transmission beam set (?), by a base station (BS), with privileged channel directions; —designing additional beam set (?) for optimizing the transmission beam set, so as to detect channel direction change outside the privileged channel directions.

Abstract: A method for transmitting binary data using a M-ASK constellation divided into M/2 sets of two symbols is disclosed. Each set of index i comprises the ith and ith+M/2 symbols of the constellation and is associated with a probability pi of transmitting the first symbol of the set. First, m?1 bits are obtained from an equiprobable binary source where m=log2M. A binary source is then selected in a plurality of binary sources responsive to said m?1 bits, each binary source of index i being associated with a probability of outputting a bit zero equal to pi. A symbol of the M-ASK constellation is obtained that is associated with the binary word formed by the m?1 bits as less significant bits and a bit obtained from the selected source as most significant bit. The symbol is finally transmitted to a receiver over a communication channel.

Abstract: A method for learning QoS performance inter-dependence of a plurality of communication links in a network managed by a central node, wherein the plurality of wireless links interface with a common application applying a joint figure of merit, comprising: selecting at least two links among the plurality of communication links; generating training requests respectively for each selected link; measuring QoS performance on each selected link for the training requests; and combining the measured QoS performance of the selected links, so as to obtain the QoS performance inter-dependence between the selected links.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for scheduling TSN flows in a communication system within a time-sensitive network. The method is implemented at a central network configuration entity. Assistance information relating to a time granularity of transmission opportunities within a radio frame is obtained from at least one TSN bridge. Based on the obtained assistance information, a plurality of TSN flows is scheduled by computing time sequences of said TSN flows down to said time granularity. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding communication system and a corresponding central network configuration entity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method implemented by a user equipment to determine a value to be used as a timing advance in a target cell in a network comprising a satellite communication network, said method comprising: determining the value to be used as a timing advance in a target cell, before the user equipment transmits a first signal to a target base station, based on: a data related to a timing advance in a source cell, a first parameter, said first parameter being determined by the user equipment, and a second parameter, said second parameter being specific to a couple of cells formed by the source cell and the target cell.

Abstract: A method for allocating a radio resource in a system comprising a resource scheduler and a set of devices is disclosed. Each device hosts at least one application, each application transmitting messages to at least one receiver on a transmission channel. The resource scheduler first receives, from each application, application parameters representative of application's requirements. Then, it computes, for each application, a metric responsive to at least part of the received application parameters, to an average probability of failure of said application and further to a channel error probability of said transmission channel. The metrics are compared and, responsive to said comparison, it selects the application to allocate the radio resource to. The average probability of failure each application is further updated. Finally, it transmits an instantaneous probability of failure to each application, said instantaneous probability of failure being used by said application to update its application parameters.

Abstract: A method comprising: Obtaining observations Z_n, and building an observation vector Z=[Z_1, . . . , Z_n, . . . , Z_N ], Defining a latent variable V_n, to build a vector of latent variables V=[V_1, . . . , V_n, . . . , V_N ], and Implementing a Dirichlet process involving a Gibbs sampling with a Markov chain, the sampling being repeated as follows until convergence: For n?1, . . . , N, if the observation Z_n is associated to a source, remove observation Z_n from a source corresponding to latent variable V_n, and retrieve a position posterior of this source as the observation Z_n is belonging to this source; Draw a new value of latent variable V_n, based on a conditional probability ; Associate the observation Z_n to the source, and update the posterior distribution of the position for the source, and, upon convergence of the algorithm, operating a separation of the interfering sources into K independent measurement sets, and an estimation of each source position.

Abstract: A method for learning QoS performance inter-dependence of a plurality of communication links in a network managed by a central node, wherein the plurality of wireless links interface with a common application applying a joint figure of merit, comprising: selecting at least two links among the plurality of communication links; generating training requests respectively for each selected link; measuring QoS performance on each selected link for the training requests; and combining the measured QoS performance of the selected links, so as to obtain the QoS performance inter-dependence between the selected links.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for calculating capabilities of a WB in a communication system within a TSN network. The WB comprises at least a UPF, a BS and a UE. The UPF comprises at least one NW port enabling communication between said BS and a first subnetwork. The UE is wirelessly connected, within the TSN network, to said BS, and comprises a DS port enabling communication with a second subnetwork. The method is performed at the WB and comprises estimating a performance capacity of the wireless connection between the BS and the UE based on information related to an intended network usage for time-sensitive communication at the WB, and calculating the TSN capabilities of the WB corresponding to the estimated performance capacity. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding communication system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method (50) for transmitting a data stream from a transmitting device (30) to a receiving device (40), the data stream comprising m data sub-streams, said method (50) comprising: encoding (S51) the data sub-streams with respective polar codes, such as to produce m polar-encoded data sub-streams, modulating (S52) the m polar-encoded data sub-streams onto symbols of a multilevel modulation comprising m levels defining 2m different symbols, such as to produce a symbol stream, transmitting (S53) the symbol stream to the receiving device (40), wherein the 2m symbols of the multilevel modulation are distributed in the complex plane such that they are regularly spaced along the real axis and the complex axis by a spacing factor K, the predetermined labeling function Z being such that ?(Z)<1.7m×(0.0425×m?0.

Abstract: Obstacle detection enhancement data are transmitted from a server to at least one moving conveyance embedding an obstacle detection system and an on-board wireless radio unit communicating with the server via wireless link. To do so, downlink transmission resources are allocated to each on-board wireless radio unit in a transmission cycle Cn, by optimizing the difference between a distance travelled by the moving conveyance during a transmission cycle and a distance covered by the obstacle detection enhancement data made available to the obstacle detection system at a next transmission cycle Cn+1, wherein the volume of obstacle detection enhancement data expected to be transmitted during the transmission cycle Cn is determined from volume-to-distance ratio information bk stored in a database and from actual quality of the wireless link.

Abstract: A method implemented by a first device to share at least one resource element within a wireless communication network, the resource element belonging to a first set of radio resources allocated to the first device within a resource pool, the first device using a device-to-device communication within the wireless communication network, and wherein the first device emits, through the device-to-device communication, an indication that the resource element is available for sharing.

Abstract: Examples include a method for providing sidelink resources to a plurality of mobile devices comprising a specific mobile device. The method comprises providing source sidelink resources to the specific mobile device. The method also comprises receiving an indication that the specific mobile device is moving from the coverage of a source cell to the coverage of a destination cell. The method further comprises negotiating, by a source base station, common sidelink special resources with a destination base station, whereby the source and destination base stations have some common resources. The method also comprises reconfiguring the sidelink resources provided to the specific mobile device from the source sidelink resources to the common sidelink special resources and triggering a handover of the specific mobile device from the source base station to the destination base station.

Abstract: A method for estimating a performance of a wireless communication network for a given time-frequency resource allocation is disclosed. The communications in said wireless communication network are subject to interferences whose activation is modeled by a binary random variable bt indicating whether an interferer is active or not at a time instant t, the discrete-time stochastic process {bt}t?[??;+?] being modelled by a Markov chain with memory M. A frequency channel sequence associated with at least one set of consecutive observations of interference activation is determined from a frequency hopping sequence. The Markov chain associated with the determined frequency channel sequence is then identified and a set of probabilities of the identified Markov chain is updated according to the obtained at least one set of consecutive observations of interference activation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method to relay a vulnerable road user, VRU, application server 20 for updating a vulnerable road user parameter P1, P2, P3 of a VRU corresponding to a first user equipment, UE, in a vehicle-to-everything, V2X, communication system, comprising: receiving from the VRU application server by a second UE a first message including information related to the VRU parameter of the first UE, said second UE corresponding to a vehicle and being in the V2X communication system; transmitting by the second UE to the first UE a second message including the information related to the VRU parameter via a device to device communication; and receiving by the second UE from the first UE a third message including information related to a value of the VRU parameter of the first UE.

Abstract: A method implemented by a user equipment to access a satellite network, at least one satellite of the satellite network being in movement relatively to Earth, the satellite network deploying radiofrequency satellite beams, wherein the user equipment: receives through at least a first satellite beam data of assistance information regarding at least current and future satellite beams of the network, interprets the data of assistance information to anticipate: connection conditions through the first satellite beam, and connection conditions through at least one second satellite beam, different from the first satellite beam, decides the access to the satellite network through a satellite beam among the first satellite beam and the second satellite beam, selected on the basis of at least the connection conditions through the first and second satellite beams, and implements a RACH procedure through the selected satellite beam.

Abstract: A method includes: determining a set of all possible configurations of occupation or non-occupation of a set of transmission bands, defined as a set of possible vectors; building a matrix from a stacking of all the possible vectors; obtaining measurements of occupation of at least a part of the set of channels, at respective time instants; and computing probabilities using a channel transition function so as to determine, for each transmission band, an estimated activation rate, on the basis of the measurements. The estimated activation rate corresponds to an occupation rate of a transmission band by an interferer within the given observation time window, and the probabilities computations include an iterative resolution of a non-linear optimization problem with a constraint derived from the Gibbs’ inequality.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and products for processing stream requests. Upon obtaining the stream requests, an initial TSN scheduling is computed at a CNC based on an initial TSN capability obtained from a dynamic bridge (DB). Then, a loop is started. At each iteration, it is determined, based on information related at least to the last computed TSN scheduling, whether or not to provide information related to an updated TSN capability of the DB to the CNC. If it is decided to provide said information, the CNC computes, based on said information, an updated TSN scheduling. Else, the loop is exited. It is determined, based on at least one computed TSN scheduling, whether to configure the TSN according to one of said at least one computed TSN scheduling or to request an adjustment of at least one stream request.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for providing assistance information on the quality of at least one communication channel between a first device and a target group of second devices in a device-to-device communication system. Among the second devices of the target group, at least one candidate is selected based on at least one criterion related to a communication condition related to at least one second device of the target group. At least one selected candidate transmits assistance information that is representative at least of the quality of the communication channel between the first device and said at least one candidate. The disclosure further relates to corresponding communication systems, second devices, computer programs, computer-readable storage media and processing circuits.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing a capacity of a communication channel in a communication system comprising at least a transmitter (10), a receiver (11), and the communication channel (12) between the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter (10) uses a finite set of symbols ?={?1, . . . , ?N} having respective positions on a constellation, to transmit a message including at least one symbol on said communication channel (11). The communication channel (11) is characterized by a conditional probability distribution ?Y|X(y|x), where y is the symbol received at the receiver (12) while x is the symbol transmitted by the transmitter. More particularly, the conditional probability distribution ?Y|X(y|x) is obtained, for each possible transmitted symbol x, by a mixture model using probability distributions represented by exponential functions.